Improvement in cigar-stands



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIAN GBZYBOWSKI, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

IM PROVEM ENT IN CIGAR-STANDS.

- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 213,747, dated April 1, 1879; application filed November 23, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIAN GRZYBOWSKI, of Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful article of manufacture called by me the Smokers Inkstand and Cigar Gutter, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to unite in one device a variety of conveniences to gentlemen in the habit of smoking, and at the same time make the same ornamental and attractive.

The invention consists of an inkstand and pen-rack, attached to which are a cigar-cutter, cigar-rest, and cigar-lighter, all so constructed as to form one article or piece of furniture.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a top view of my invention with one drawer for cigar-ashes partly withdrawn. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation with the ashes-drawer and the receptacle for cigar-tips partly withdrawn. Fig. 3 is a detached section of the cutter-standard, showing the operation of the lever and knife; and Fig. 4 shows a cigarholder, which may be screwed to the top of the standard in lieu of the lamp-holder shown in Fig. 2.

The various parts of my invention, when taken separately, are not new, but joined together as one device Ibelieve it to be a novel invention.

My invention is made of metal, and consists of a bed-piece and standard. The bed-piece is so constructed as to permit an inkstand of suitable form to rest therein, as shown by G.

On either side of the inkstand is placed the gars, and in the latter case the ashes therefrom will fall into the drawer below, and can readily be removed.

The slides, being movable, can be adapted to hold any length of cigar.

The standard contains two cigar-cutters, with their levers G 0, one in front and one in the rear. These cutters are made in any approved form. At either side of the standard, fitting down into the bed -piece, supported by a flange near the bottom, and held in place by a circular guide attached to the standard near the top, is a match-safe or safe for holding spirits, as may be desired. In case a lamp is kept burning at the top of the standard, resting in the holder B, these safes are filled with spirits to be used in lighting cigars otherwise with matches. Underneath the standard, and resting in the bed-piece of my invention, is a drawer, L, to receive and hold the cigar-tips cut off, and which, when full, may be removed and emptied. 1t is kept sufficiently in place by any article on which my invention may be allowed to rest; or it may be supported by a spring or button fastening.

The cigar-holder shown in Fig. 4 is constructed of metal or wood. with perforations and tubes at a n of such size and form as to readily hold a cigar byits tip, and this holder is to be screwed upon the top of the standard in lieu of the holder B, where a lamp is not desired to be kept burning.

What I claim is- The device above described,,as a new article of manufacture, consisting of the inkstand G, pen-rack K, movable slides H, ashes-drawers E E, cigar-cutters O O, spirit-holders or match-safes D D, lamp-holder .B or cigarholder 0, and tipreceiver L, substantially as above described.

JULIAN GRZYBOWSKI.

Witnesses:

OMAR H. SIMoNDs, SIMON DZIENISZEWSKI. 

